1829 London Encycl. XIV. 39/2 Æsthesia, among almost all the nosologists, imports sensation generally: and hence dysæsthesiæ is employed..as the name of an order comprising diseases of sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing.

1884 Detroit Lancet 7 391/2 Wille lays much stress on the existence of the headache, æsthesias, etc., and believes..that progressive paresis in a man under twenty-one is always of syphilitic origin.

1901 E. A. Ayers Physical Diagnosis Obstetr. iv. 93 The variations of esthesia of the vagina are due to three distinct conditions.

1909 Ann. Ophthalmol. 18 209 The energy of the sound waves which strike the organ of hearing may give rise to divers subjective sensations, as algias, spasms or simple reflex esthesias.

1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Jan. 17/3 A general aesthesia akin to that of a creature in which the special sense organs are not yet differentiated.

2006 J. Verrips in O. Löfgren & R. R. Wilk Off Edge 34/2 It would certainly be rewarding to have a look at all the forms of ‘aesthesia’ distinguished in the medical sciences, such as hypoaesthesia, poly-aesthesia, pseudo-aesthesia.